TY  - JOUR
KW  - Pharmaceutical industry; Biotechnology industry; R&D; Technological change; Alliances
PB  - Elsevier
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733300000949
SN  - 0048-7333
JF  - Research Policy
ID  - eprints629
Y1  - 2001///
EP  -  508
AV  - none
SP  - 485 
TI  - Technological change and network dynamics: Lessons from the pharmaceutical industry
N2  - In this paper, we investigate how underlying relevant technological conditions induce distinguishable patterns of change in industry structure and evolution. A mapping is detected between the specific nature of problem decompositions and research techniques at the micro level of knowledge bases, and patterns of structural evolution at the macro level of the industry network. The graph-theoretic techniques we introduce map major technological discontinuities on changes observed at the level of dominant organization forms. They might have applications in other domains, whenever the identification of structural breaks and homological relationships between technological and industrial spaces are important issues.
IS  - 3
VL  - 30
A1  - Pammolli, Fabio
A1  - Orsenigo, Luigi
A1  - Riccaboni, Massimo
ER  -